Without jobs, and after our savings run out, we will be homeless people. Then, after that, we can try to bargain for ... whatever homeless people get in this society. It doesn't look like much to me.

Call it 'basic income' if that helps.

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rogerrogerr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If I’m one of the six people who ends up with all the money and controlling all the robots, why do I want your 3 bed 2 bath house in Tennessee? Trying to take it from you will only make you riot.

It’s not exactly a bright outlook, but I do think we in the west are likely to be not-worse, on average, than we are now.

Of course, your average HN denizen is much better off than average. I think there’s room for our standard of living to fall precipitously.

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whatever1 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You will need electricity, water you will be producing waste etc. in your Tennessee house. Why would someone who owns all of the power and resources share with you?

Really I don’t see any playable alternative other than near complete annihilation of human race. It’s very similar to a nuclear apocalypse. Very few get to survive.

	▲	qsera an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>Why would someone who owns all of the power and resources share with you? Ideally governments will see to it. This also assumes that governments have a much larger army of robots than any private individual. Just like how governments makes it illegal to own firearms, it will be illegal to own certain class of robots with combat capability.. Thus governments (the people really/ideally) will see to it that everyone will be comfortable with minimum amount of work utilizing the robots. One can dream!
	▲	pastel8739 38 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Realistically though, if there are some humans left, they are going to want to live in a society. Humans are fundamentally social and I think the people in charge would eventually realize this. But then again rich people are not normal, so maybe not

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oh_my_goodness 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bruh. This has nothing to do with like Elon coming and taking the house away. This is just plain old reality.

Without income or savings, people can't afford houses. How would they pay the property taxes? Can't maintain the house. The house gets repossessed or sold for taxes. This happens all the time. Nobody swoops in and saves those people.

Also, hang on. Will we be "not worse" or will our standard of living "fall precipitously"? Those feel different.